Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 372
By watching this battle, Chen Guangping discovered that the artillery used by the Portuguese did not shoot as far as theirs.

If the Portuguese Notre Dame and the Tianjin match, the Tianjin can completely shoot at the Notre Dame from 500 meters away.

At this distance, the Portuguese artillery could not hit the Tianjin at all, and the Tianjin could hit the Notre Dame.

"My lord, there are a few Japanese who are asking to see you." One of his subordinates hurried over and said to Chen Guangping.

"Who is asking to see?" Chen Guangping asked.

"It's from the Shimadzu family." The subordinate said to Chen Guangping.

"The Shimadzu family seems to be here for the affairs of Ryukyu." Chen Guangping said, "Let's go back and meet the Shimadzu family."

Soon, Chen Guangping led a group of people back to the shop.

"Shimadzu Tadaki has met Mr. Chen."

In the Daming Imperial Commercial Hall, a Japanese man in his 30s bowed his hands to Chen Guangping and said.

"I don't know what advice the Shimadzu family came to our family for?" Chen Guangping asked Zhongqing Shimadzu.

At present, because Wei Zhongxian led troops to defeat the three thousand soldiers of the Satsuma domain, this has caused many Japanese to be unfriendly to the businessmen of Ming Dynasty recently.

In particular, Chen Guangping and others who were with Wei Zhongxian encountered a lot of cold reception and restrictions in Nagasaki.

So Chen Guangping didn't have a good face when facing Shimadzu Tadakiyoshi.

"I was appointed by my brother to come here to discuss with Mr. Chen about redeeming the warriors of my Shimadzu family." Shimadzu Zhongqing Chen Guangping said.

"You want to redeem your soldiers?" Chen Guangping asked in surprise.

"Yes, our Shimazu family sent troops to teach Ryukyu a lesson because Ryukyu Kingdom has been harassed by Ryukyu pirates for a long time. We did not deliberately start a war."

Shimazu Tadakiyoshi said: "I just didn't expect that there were some misunderstandings with Ming Dynasty, so we hope to clarify the misunderstanding and redeem our samurai."

"I'm afraid I can't decide this matter, but I will report it to my superiors." Chen Guangping said in a perfunctory tone.

He knew that the captive Japanese should be transported to Tiwan Island and then used as coolies. This was Zhou's decision. It would be very difficult for the Shimadzu family to redeem these people.

"What does Mr. Chen mean? Do you not want to help, or do you want to make an enemy of my Shimadzu family?" Seeing Chen Guangping's attitude, Shimadzu Zhongqing's face was very ugly.

"Hehe, our family represents the Daming royal family, and you, the Shimadzu family, are not in the eyes of Chen." Chen Guangping said sarcastically.

As the admiral eunuch of the Royal Fleet, he really doesn't take a mere Shimazu family seriously.

The Shimadzu family is just one of the many princes in Japan. The territory of the Shimadzu family is not as large as a county in Ming Dynasty.

A sense of superiority in a big country made Chen Guangping look down on the Japanese from the bottom of his heart.

"I will report this matter to the higher authorities. If you have nothing else to do, just leave." Chen Guangping said to Zhongqing Shimadzu, as if serving tea to the guests.

"Hmph, let's wait and see." At this point in the matter, Shimadzu Tadakiyo had no need to stay any longer, so he snorted, said a harsh word, and left.

"My lord, what's the matter? Does the Ming Dynasty agree with us to redeem the family warriors?"

As soon as Shimadzu Tadakiyo came out of the Daming Royal Commercial Hall, a group of people surrounded him.

"No, this Chen Guangping has always been perfunctory to me." Shimadzu Tadakiyo's face was ugly.

He said to everyone: "It seems that it is unrealistic to redeem people from here. Wait until I report back to the family and see what the family master plans."

A few days later, Shimadzu Tadakiyo returned to Kagoshima, the political center of the Satsuma Domain.

"The Ming Dynasty deceived people too much." After hearing the news brought back by Shimadzu Tadahiro, Shimadzu Tadatoge immediately smashed several beloved porcelains.

"We were ordered by the shogunate to attack Ryukyu. The shogunate cannot just sit idly by now that this situation has happened. In this way, I wrote a letter to Tokugawa Hidetada, asking the shogunate to contact the Ming side. The warriors of my Shimadzu family must be sent Redeem it."

The next day, Shimazu Tadahashi sent a sea ship towards Edo as quickly as possible.

Kagoshima is thousands of kilometers away from Edo. If it is a normal sailing, it may not be possible to arrive in a month or two. However, if you don’t stop all the way and take several waves of people rowing non-stop, it only takes less than half a month. We have already arrived in Edo.

After seeing Shimadzu Tadahiro's letter, Tokugawa Hidetada discussed with his father Tokugawa Ieyasu and decided to send envoys to Nagasaki in the name of the shogunate to negotiate with Chen Guangping.

A month later, envoys from the shogunate came to Nagasaki and met Chen Guangping.

For the shogunate to come forward, Chen Guangping still wants to give a little face.

"We will write a letter then and have someone take it back when the next merchant ship arrives in Nagasaki. It may take half a year for this time to come and go, so you'd better wait. After all, I don't know about this matter. You can't decide this." Chen Guangping said to the envoy of the shogunate.

Half a month later, a fleet from Tianjin arrived at Nagasaki Port. After unloading the cargo and loading a batch of Japanese cargo, it left Nagasaki again and returned to Daming.

Going back with the fleet, there are also envoys sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to Ming Dynasty.

More than two months later, the fleet returned to Daming.

"The Japanese want to redeem the captured samurai?"

Zhang Qingfeng was very surprised to hear the news. Could it be that the Japanese daimyo valued his soldiers so much?
In fact, Zhang Qingfeng didn't know that the samurai sent by the Shimadzu family to attack Ryukyu this time were all the best of the best.

The loss of three thousand elites has reduced the strength of the Shimadzu family by [-]%.

So when they found out that there were more than 1000 family warriors alive, they naturally wanted to redeem these people.

"Since they want to redeem their people, it's not impossible. Each Japanese samurai pays 500 taels of silver, ordinary officers 1000 taels of silver, and senior officers 3000 taels of silver. The total is about 100 million taels of silver. Let the Shimadzu family pay 100 million taels of silver." Baiyin, return their warriors to them, pay with one hand and deliver with the other." Zhang Qingfeng ordered to his subordinates.

For this matter, Zhang Qingfeng can decide with one word.Emperor Wanli didn't care about such trivial matters, but even so, Zhang Qingfeng still told Emperor Wanli about it.

Emperor Wanli was too late to be happy about asking for compensation from the Japanese.

Three months later, the fleet came to Japan again and brought back Zhang Qingfeng's words.

"One million taels of silver? Why didn't they just come and grab it? It's simply unreasonable." After hearing Daming's offer, Shimadzu Tadahiro's lungs exploded.

And Daming is still very tough, if you want to redeem someone, you have to take the money, not a penny less.

"Patriarch, Daming is too deceitful, why don't we arrest all the people in the Royal Merchant Hall, and exchange them with Daming." Someone suggested.

(End of this chapter)